Umair Azam is the Founder and CEO of Integration Xperts, Pakistan's leading cloud implementation and enterprise software firm with 180+ employees and offices across Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, and the USA. As Pakistan's first Salesforce Value-Added Reseller and one of the largest Oracle and SAP Gold partners in the country, he built the company from scratch in 2016 after a career spanning Oracle, Avaya, and Inbox Business Technologies. He secured a seven-figure USD investment from the Atlas Group in 2020 and has set his sights on an IPO on the Pakistan Stock Exchange by 2027.
Shahzad Shahid is the Group CEO of TPS Worldwide, a Pakistan-headquartered global payments technology company serving 100+ clients across 30+ countries. Starting as a software engineer at TPS in 1999, he rose through roles in regional business development, global marketing, and the C-suite to become CEO in 2014. Under his leadership, TPS has expanded into Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, underpinned key Pakistani financial infrastructure projects like 1LINK and NIFT ePay, and partnered with sustainability-focused fintechs. He is also a former Chairman of P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) and an active voice on digital economic policy.
Sher Baig is the Founder and CEO of CyberSalus (Cyber Salus Inc.), a global MedTech cybersecurity company protecting medical devices and clinical ecosystems across 150+ hospitals worldwide. With 17+ years of healthcare experience - including a decade building GE Healthcare's global Medical Device Cybersecurity commercial organization from the ground up - Baig launched CyberSalus around 2022, scaling it to manage over 2-3 million medical device endpoints. He also serves as an Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Singapore on medical device cybersecurity policy, and is a recognized speaker at HIMSS, Arab Health, and Hospital Management Asia conferences.
Wahaj us Siraj is the co-founder and CEO of Nayatel, Pakistan's leading fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) telecom company. A mechanical engineer by training who pivoted to entrepreneurship out of frustration with government bureaucracy, he sold a Suzuki car to fund his first venture and went on to build Pakistan's first FTTH network - a first for all of South and Southeast Asia. Under his leadership, Nayatel has grown to 170,000+ customers, 2,500+ employees, and operations in 17+ cities, while also launching Pakistan's first HD TV channels and partnering with Facebook to expand fiber across 8 cities.
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, the frontend cloud platform that powers millions of developers and some of the world's most visited websites. A self-taught engineer from Lanús, Argentina who never finished high school, Rauch built two of JavaScript's most widely used open-source libraries (Socket.IO and Mongoose), co-created Next.js — the world's most popular React framework — and turned Vercel into a $9.3 billion company with $340 million ARR. He is also one of the most prolific angel investors in tech, with over 700 known investments, and recently launched v0, an AI-powered coding tool with over 3.5 million users.
Jack Naglieri is the founder and CEO of Panther, a cloud-native SIEM platform that achieved unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.4B valuation. A former security engineer at Yahoo and Airbnb, he open-sourced StreamAlert in 2017 and parlayed that practitioner frustration into a $140M-funded company serving enterprises like Coinbase and Docker. He also writes Detection at Scale, a widely read Substack newsletter covering AI's transformation of security operations.
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear — a $1.25B unicorn project management tool trusted by 66% of Forbes' top 50 AI companies, including OpenAI, Ramp, and Vercel. A Finnish designer-turned-engineer who grew up questioning why everyday objects look ugly, attended 5,000-person LAN parties as a child, and turned that instinct into one of the most respected product careers in Silicon Valley. After shaping the visual language at Coinbase and Airbnb (Cereal typeface, Design Language System, Lottie, Google Material Design Award), he co-founded Linear in 2019 with two fellow Finns from Helsinki — and built it to 20,000+ customers and $100M+ ARR while staying profitable the entire time. His philosophy: quality is the growth strategy, tools embed opinions so choose accordingly, and the best MVP in a crowded category isn't minimal — it's sharply opinionated for a specific audience.